#68 , ANSWERS TO ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS 671 TO 680

HERE ARE THE ANSWERS
OBJECTIVE OF THIS TEST
Adjectives and adverbs help us to make our sentences complete and more meaningful. Simultaneously, they help us to embellish our style. A Right adjective used at a right place takes us a long way in building a readable script.


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LIST OF ADJECTIVES WHICH CAN BE USED IN DESCRIBING FACES
baby face
bold face
dead face
dissipated face
downcast face
expressionless face
fair face
familiar face
fierce face
fighting face
flat face
freightened face
hideous face
honest face
hot face
indifferent face
iron face
little face
mortal face
furrowed face
blood-stained face
pale face
poker face
pretty face
purple-colored face
rough face
ruddy face
sallow face
smiling face
square face
stained face
swollen face
trim-chiseled face
weatherbeaten face
wry face
yellow face

671. His was a long lean sallow face,
He sat with half-shut eyes,
Like an old sailor in a ship
Becalmed 'neath tropic skies.
[Walter de La Mare in his poem 'The Keys of Morning.]

672. His youth drank in the lessons of his race,
Which stamp'd their impress on his hideous face.
[James Fairfax McLaughlin in his poem 'The American Cyclops']

673. "No, he seems to be a common sailor; he is working, and is dressed in
old clothes--all dirty. And such a dissipated face, too. He seems to
have fallen--so low." [Morgan Robertson in his 'The Wreck of the Titan'].

674. His ruddy face was paler, his hair thin and ragged as though chunks had been torn out from time to time. [Alan Edward Nourse in his book 'Problem'].

675. O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips.
These sorrowful drops upon thy blood-stained face,
The last true duties of thy noble son! [William Shakespeare in his 'The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus'.]

676. Even as the sun with purple-colour'd face
Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn,
Rose-cheek'd Adonis tried him to the chase;
[William Shakespeare in his 'Venus and Adonis'].

677. "...Mr. Gray was thirty-eight, and tall and slender and handsome, a little bald in front, alert, quick in his movements, business-like, prompt, decided, unsentimental, and with that kind of trim-chiseled face that just seems to glint and sparkle with frosty intellectuality!" [Mark Twain in his novel 'A Dog's tale'].

678. Grumpy Weasel made a wry face, as if he did not care to have anybody speak of Mr. Meadow Mouse as a friend of his. And he did not quit the stone wall until he had seen Mr. Meadow Mouse venture forth in safety. [Arthur Scot Bailey in his book 'The Tale of Grumpy Weasel']

679. The man approached the conference table in the center of the room with measured pace and gravely expressionless face. The rose-tinted machine on his left did a couple of impulsive pirouettes on the way and twittered a greeting to Meg and Roger.
[Fritz Reuter Leiber in his 'Bread Overhead'].

680 "...And when at last, with sad, indifferent face,
I walk in narrow pathways patiently;
Forgetful of thy beauty, and thy truth,
Thy ringing laughter, thy rebellious grace..."
[Olive Custance in his poem 'In praise of youth'.]